“There have been times I’ve wanted to reach out to him and have a conversation with him, because I see a little boy even though he’s a grown man. I see a broken person," Ali said. "I know when you have money and you have ‘power’ and you have all these 'yes' people around you, sometimes you don’t have that person to pull you aside and give it to you straight.”

Ali’s comments came a day after former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson said Mayweather was "delusional" to dispute Ali’s claim as the greatest boxer of all-time.